There has never been another IPO like it and once Alibaba exercises its greenshoe, the company is set to enter the record books with the largest and one of the most successful and symbolic flotations in history. At $25.03 billion (post shoe), the e-commerce giant's deal will easily sweep past the previous record holder, Agricultural Bank of China, which raised $22.1 billion through its IPO in 2010.
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